Justice for Maurice Henry Carter

Written by: Donald Molnar, Alicia Payne

Genre: Drama

Length: 110 min.

Justice For Maurice Henry Carter is based on the true story of the enduring friendship between Doug Tjapkes and Maurice Carter, who spent 29 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. For over ten years, Doug helped Maurice fight for his freedom. Doug is White. Maurice is...

Room

Written by: Emma Donoghue, (with songs by Cora Bissett and Kathryn Joseph)

Genre: Drama

Length: 135 min.

A two-act adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s 2010 novel Room about a five-year-old growing up with only his mother in a small world (actually a locked shed) he calls Room.

Trespasses

Written by: Emma Donoghue

Genre: Drama, Historical

Length: 120 min.

Set over three days in 1661, Trespasses is inspired by the judge’s own account of one of the tiny handful of witch trials that ever took place in Ireland. It asks why a servant girl who fell into fits would have put the blame on an old beggarwoman – but...

Love, Mona (previously titled The Bitterest Time)

Written by: Andria Hill-Lehr, Sarah Jane Blenkhorn

Genre: Biography, Drama, Historical

Length: 120 min.

Love, Mona is closely based on the true story of Mona Parsons, the only known female Canadian civilian sentenced to hard labour in Nazi Germany for her resistance work in the Netherlands. Although Mona was from Nova Scotia, she was living in Holland when Germany invaded in 1940. After joining...

Sisters

Written by: Wendy Lill

Genre: Drama

Length: 90 min.

“Sisters explores the life of a nun who burns down a Native residential school, examining the cultural infrastructure and values of the white society which created them.” (From the CPO Website)

One Tiger to a Hill

Written by: Sharon Pollock

Genre: Drama

Length: 110 min.

Inside an aging Federal Maximum Security Prison an inmate in isolation has died under suspicious circumstances according to inmate rumour.  This despite external reviews and recommendations for change that warden and staff have failed to implement. In a demand for justice within the prison and a chance at freedom two...

Angélique

Written by: Lorena Lillian Gale

Genre: Drama, Historical

Length: 120 min.

“In the character of Angélique, Gale gives us a woman brave enough to try and shatter her bonds. A rich, poetic evocation of a graceful yet cruel time—a time when “civilized” people still bought and sold slaves.” (From the CPO Website)

Jail Baby

Written by: Hope McIntyre, Cairn Moore

Genre: Drama

Length: 75 min.

“Jasmine bursts into the world unlike your typical newborn child and is anointed a ‘jail baby.’ Born in prison, raised by a mother who revolved in and out of the correctional system, tossed in and out of foster care, Jasmine is destined to become one of society’s monsters. When she...

Controlled Damage

Written by: Andrea Scott

Genre: Black Theatre, Drama, Historical, TYA

Length: 60 min.

“Controlled Damage explores the life of Canadian civil rights icon Viola Desmond and how her act of bravery in a Nova Scotia movie theatre in 1946 started a ripple effect that is still felt today. An ordinary woman forced to be extraordinary by an unyielding and racist world, Desmond never...